New Obama Campaign Ad on Energy: Swiss Bank Account

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“Swiss Bank Account” highlights Mitt Romney’s belief that a strong economy is built on outsourcing, loopholes and risky financial deals. As a corporate CEO, he shipped American jobs to places like Mexico and China. As governor, Romney outsourced state jobs to India, and now as a candidate for president he is pushing tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas.

Romney’s economic scheme stands in stark contrast with President Obama’s efforts to continue moving the country forward by rebuilding an economy that’s meant to last, by out-building, out-innovating and out-educating the rest of the world, and making the things the rest of the world buys by closing loopholes and providing incentives that are bringing jobs back to America.

The Hill:

President Obama’s reelection campaign is launching a new ad in three swings states that aims to contrast Obama’s record on energy policy with Mitt Romney, claiming Romney has a history of sending jobs overseas.

The campaign, with the new ad, seeks to kill two birds with one stone by parrying attacks on Obama’s green energy programs while knocking Romney’s record in business and as Massachusetts governor.

The 30-second ad that will air in Virginia, Ohio and Iowa opens by decrying “false attacks from Big Oil,” pointing to a Washington Post article Monday that called a pair of ads attacking Obama’s energy programs – including a multi-million dollar buy from Americans for Prosperity – inaccurate and out of context.

Conservative Group Blames Climate Change on Immigration

From Californians for Population Stabilization:

The TV spots point out that when immigrants settle in the U.S., their energy use quickly becomes Americanized. As a result their carbon emissions skyrocket. The result is a quadrupling of immigrants’ carbon footprints compared to the amount of carbon emissions they produced in their home countries.

The TV spot is based on a Center for Immigrations Studies (CIS) report about U.S. immigration and carbon emissions. While the CAPS TV spot is focused more on future carbon emissions, the CIS study looks at current carbon emissions. Currently, US immigrants produce an estimated 637 million metric tons of CO2 annually or the same amount of carbon emissions currently produced by Great Britain and Sweden, combined.

More at Raw Story.

John Boehner Lies About U.S. Energy Production

In his weekly press conference on Thursday, House Speaker John Boehner said that, “for three years his administration has made every effort to block, delay and restrict new energy production in our country.” In reality, U.S. oil and natural gas production have both increased sharply during Obama’s presidency.

Here’s a transcript of speaker Boehner’s remarks:

You know gas prices are rising and Americans are frustrated with the gap between the President’s words and his actions. The President now says he supports the Republican all-of-the-above energy strategy for our country. But for three years his administration has made every effort to block, delay and restrict new energy production in our country.

He claims that he wants to address rising gas prices, but his policies are actually making matters worse for families and small businesses. And the only recent action the President has taken on energy involved lobbying Senators, personally and successfully, to prevent the construction of the Keystone pipeline.

Yet today, he’s out in Oklahoma trying to take credit for part of the pipeline that doesn’t even require his approval. Now, this is what I’m calling the Obama energy gap. Up here in Canada, and in North Dakota, we’ve got all this oil. And the President is down here in Oklahoma taking credit for part of the pipeline that’s going to go through the normal process. It’s already gotten its approvals. And this idea that the President is going to expedite this will have no impact on the construction of this pipeline.

Now let me explain something. It’s not just oil that’s up in Canada. Right now, this year, North Dakota will become the second largest oil producing state in our country. There are three 100 tank trains every day that come out of North Dakota and have to go all the way to the Gulf, because of the lack of this pipeline. And so, it’s Canadian oil, it’s North Dakotan oil, that needs to get down to our refineries in the Gulf.

So the President can take credit for having nothing to do with the bottom half of this pipeline. The fact is, there’s only one permit that needs his approval because it crosses our national boundaries. And that’s the Keystone decision on the upper half of this. Remember we have 165,000 miles of pipeline that operate safely in our country that operate successfully every day. The Congress earlier this year passed a pipeline safety bill, to increase the safety standards on this 165,000 miles of pipeline.

The President should listen to the American people and allow the Keystone pipeline to go forward. There’s a big gap between what the President promises and what he talks about, and the actions he’s taking, and I think honest hard working taxpayers deserve actions that match the words.

Obama Shamelessly Touts His Administration’s Favors to Big Oil

In a stunning display of cowardice in response to high gas prices, President Obama traveled to Cushing, Oklahoma today to brag that the United States has “added enough new oil and gas pipeline to encircle the earth and then some” since he came into office.

Here’s the relevant part of the transcript:

We’re opening up more than 75 percent of our potential oil resources offshore. We have quadrupled the number of operating rigs to a record high. We have added enough new oil and gas pipeline to encircle the earth and then some. So we are drilling all over the place, right now. That’s not the challenge. That’s not the problem.

The full transcript of President Obama’s remarks today in Cushing can be found below.

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